Cabinet for holding phonograph records and similar articles



G. A. FELLMANN AND -I. L. SINNING.

CABINET FOR HOLDING PHONOGRAPH RECORDS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED APII.26, Iago.

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ATTORNEYS einen ortica.

A. FELLIANN ,AND JOHN L. SINNING, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

C.`^EI\TET i'IO-'LDSNG- PHONOGRAPH RECORDS AND SJELVIILAR ARTICLES.

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To all ic 710m- A1 may concern s .nl known that we. (ich Y il. Anm;-

anu floris* L. L-INNING, citizens et' the otates, residing at Brooklyn,county of New Torlc, have invented and useful lm irovements in Holdingphonograph ftlecords i. iirticles, fully described and esented in thefollowing speciiication accompanying drawings, :torn'iing 't the saine.'nvention relates to drawer cabinets y heavy articles such asphonorecord 'y and it is the especial object invention 'to provide sucha container, for instance a cabinet for holding` phonoanh records, in.vhich the drawer or u were are supported so as to have a tree d easyopening and closing movement, Lil in which however' the drav-.f'ers willbe 3 ly supported in open position and preed from accidentally openingit the is tilted or tippen somewhat, is a further object of theinvention to provino a cabinet or container embodying these 'Featureswhich shall be simple, durable and which can be cheaply made.

Vith these and otherobjects not specilically referred to the inventionconsists in certain novel parts and arrangements which will be describedin connection with the annexed drawings, and pointed out in the claimsappended hereto.

ln the drawings- Figure 1 is a vertical side section on t line 1-1 ofFiO. 2;

Figure 2 is a vertical cross section taken on line 2-2 of 1; and

Figure 3 is a section taken on line 8**3 of Fig. 2, and showing a drawerin open or extended position.

Referring now to these drawings, the invention has been shown asembodied in a cabinet having a drawer suitable for holding phonographrecords, and this cabinet has been shown with one drawer but it will beunderstood that the invention may be used for other purposes and may beused in cabinets having more than one drawer.

The cabinet may be of any suitable configuration and of any suitablematerial. As shown, it is rectangular in shape and made oi wood, havinga bottom 1 supported on four legs or standards 2, side walls or frames3, and front and back walls 4, 5.

Serial No. 376,515.

The front wall a is formed with an opening through which a drawer 6 maybe moved into and out oit' the cabinet, this drawer being provided vitha suitable hand grasp as a handle 7 for manipulating it.

ln accordance with the invention, antifriction means are provided forcausing the drawer tovmove easily and freely in and out of the cabinetwhen heavily loaded, and means are also provided for holding the drawerand preventing it from tipping relatively to the cabinet when it isdrawn out and for preventing it vfrom opening if the cabinet isaccidentally tipped on its supporting legs. vWhile these means may varyin their specific embodiment, inthe best constructions, theanti-friction devices are relied on to accomplish this.

ln the particular construction shown there are provided upper and lowerguides or abutments secured respectively to the cabinet and the sidewalls of the drawer, the set se. cured to the cabinet being marked 8, 9,and

the set secured to the drawer being marked 10, 11. rllhese guides orabutments may be or". any suitable coniguration, but as shown, are inthe form of strips of wood or metal having-smooth faces, secured to theside trames and the drawer as by screws 12.

Co-operating with these guides or abutments are anti-friction devices,which may be in the .term ci small rollers 13, 14, rone being preferablyprovided for. each track. The rolls 13 which ride along the under Jracesof guides 8, 9, as hereafter referred to.y are mounted on pins 15secured in the side walls of the drawer near its inner end. These rollsin addition to their anti-friction function, also have the function otpreventing the drawer from tipping up when it is in open position, therolls bearing against the under side of the guides, as shown in Figure3.

The set of guides 10, 11 secured to the drawer and moving therewithco-operate `with the small rolls 14 mounted on pins 17 in shortstandards 18 secured to the cabinet trame. These rolls run on the underside of the guides 10, 11, forming anti-friction supports :tor thedrawer which also keeps it oli' the bottom of the cabinet, these twosets of rolls and guides forming a strong support for the drawer andkeeping it from tipping, wh-ile at the same time the loaded drawer iseasily moved in and out of the cabinet.

In the best constructions, means are provided for preventing theaccidental starting of the drawer from the cabinet. these means may bevaried, preferably one of the sets of guides and rolls is made use offor this purpose. ln the construction shown, the set of guides l0, 1land rolls 14 are thus used, and to effect this one or both of the guidesis formed-with its under or bearing face inclined or wedge shaped asshown at 19 in Fig. 1.` rllhe rolls le being stationary, the wedgesurface acts to retard the movement of the drawer and thus tends toprevent accidental opening. This also acts to prevent to some extent atoo sudden opening of the drawer. The wedge or inclined surface isproportioned, however', not to malre the starting pull too hard to bediflicult, the incline riding up the roll and slightly lifting` thedrawer when sufficient pull is put on the drawer handle.

A stop or stops are or mav be provided to prevent the drawer from beingpulled out so far that the rolls are pulled clear ofthe guides. lJ/Vhilethe form of this stop may vary, as shown there are provided a pair ofrods 20 pivoted to the outer' sides of the side walls of the drawer,these rods ending),l in hooks 21 arranoed to catch against the bent ends22 of the supports 1S on the bottom of the cabinet at or near its frontend,

TWhen, as in the present instance, the

drawer is to be employed for phonograph records, it may be provided withhigh sides 23 at its outer endr and a partition 2li to form acompartment in which records may be stood edgeways and readilyaccessible, and also forming a compartment 25 between the partition andthe back wall 26 in which if desired old or little used records may bestored.

While i `While the invention has been shown and described in itspreferred form, it will be understood that various changes may be madein the specific constructiony and that the invention is not limited tosuch specific construction, and it also may be embodied in cabinets andcontainers other than for holding,` phonographs.

What we claim is:v

l. A drawer cabinet having sidewalls and an end wall, a drawer freelymovable in and out of the cabinet between the walls, a pair of opposedlower abutinents carried on the side walls, rolls mounted on the rearbottom of the drawer and contactingr onlyY with the lower faces thelower abutnients, a pair of opposed upper abutments carried by the sidesof the drawerr and spaced from the lower abutments, the lower edges ofthe upper abutments being inclined upwardly from a point medially oftheir ends to their respective ends, opposed supports mounted adjacentthe side walls and near thefront end of the cabinet, rolls mounted onthe supports and contacting' only with. the inclined edges of the upperabutn'ients and (3o-acting with the inclined edges to prevent accidentalmovement of the drawer from either its open or closed positions.

2. A drawer cabinet as claimed .in claim l wherein the lower ends of thesupports are bent angularly toward each other in eombination' withcatchespivoted to the drawer for engagement with said angularly bentends to positively prevent displacement of the drawer from the cabinet.

ln testimony whereof, we have hereunto vset our hands.

GUSTAV A. FELLMANN. JOHN L. SNNING.

